Atlas Flutes

Atlas Flutes: World Winds Toolbox

Atlas Flutes is an intriguing collection of world woodwinds that focuses on short, almost percussive and textural articulations. It was developed in collaboration with German film composer Christoph Zirngibl, who originally created the library for his score on the hugely successful animation film Mia and Me: The Hero of Centopia.

With six instruments, never-before-sampled articulations, and a special performance mode, this engaging instrument for the free Kontakt Player allows you to include woodwinds in new and interesting ways. It is inspired by the work of renowned film composer James Horner.

Alto, bass, Kaval, West African, Quenacho, and Pan Pipes are among the instruments in Atlas Flutes that have been painstakingly recorded, programmed, and performed in the manners typical of film, video game, and other media soundtracks.

Each Instrument can play:

• Marcato
• Staccato
• Staccatissimo
• Swells in two or three different durations
• Sforzando in three different durations
• Jet Tones (Bass and Alto Flutes only)
• Flutters (Kaval, Bass Flute, Alto Flute and West African Flute only)

Whilst this toolbox is perfect for achieving authentic, atmospheric and enchanting ethnic soundtracks, they also recorded incredible Kaval and Bass Flute textures that vary from purely acoustic improvisations to designed, hybrid soundscapes. Use the X-Y pad to morph between them and create your own distinctive sounds ranging from disturbing, dark and haunting to light, airy and uplifting.

Performance Mode

Performance mode is a unique feature of Atlas Flutes which will speed up your workflow immensely.

Activate it to control all the selected instrument’s short articulations from one single keyboard mapping!

At the press of a button the articulations are automatically remapped: use the left part of the keyboard to define the pitch to be played and the right side to trigger notes: marcato, staccato and staccatissimo on the white keys, swells and sforzandos on the black.

There’s more: the swells in performance mode are automatically tempo synced to your host... landing on the beat and creating tight ostinatos is quick and easy!

Atlas Flutes: World Winds Toolbox is available for Kontakt Player 6.7.1+ (no full version of Kontakt is required).

This product works with the free Native Instruments Kontakt Player, the latest version can be downloaded through Native Access, Native Instrument’s download manager!

The minimum required Kontakt version for this product is stated in the product description or can be found on the manufacturers wesite.

System Requirements:

Mac:

• macOS 10.14 or higher 
• 64 bit
• Intel Core i5 or Apple M1 (native)
• RAM: 4GB (6GB recommended)

Windows:

• Windows 10 or higher
• 64 bit
• Intel Core i5 or similar CPU
• RAM: 4GB (6GB recommended)

Supported Interfaces:

• Mac (64-bit only): Stand-alone, VST, VST3, AU, AAX
• Windows (64-bit): Stand-alone, VST, VST3, AAX

Legacy Versions:

If you require legacy installers of Kontakt Player please refer to this Knowledge Base Article.